Anne Chloe Devic

Anne Chloe Devic has a Master’s degree in Chemistry and Chemical engineering with a specialization in Polymers from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie in Montpellier, France. After being Senior Innovation Manager in the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) in Brussels between 2020 and 2022 , she is now CEO of the SSbD consulting Europe SL company ( safe and sustainable by design ) . Apart from her past industrial experience successively in ICI , Huntsman and Repsol in various R&D manager positions , she has been responsible for innovation policies and funding opportunities in Cefic ,and also representing the area of advanced materials and coordinating 17 SusChem’s National Technology Platforms for the European platform.

Since 2023 , she created the company SSbD Consulting Europe SL , giving support to companies and Research organisations on the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design concept.

She started her career at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in various positions: first in the UK working as a research engineer in acrylic composites, then in ICI France as a pilot plant manager on a production site of surfactants and later as a deputy site manager looking after quality, safety and process on a production site of PMMA cast sheets . In 1997 she took the position of team leader of scale-up activities for the Polyurethane business of ICI, based in Brussels ( which then became Huntsman). She then joined the Repsol group in 2002 in the technology center of Madrid where she worked as a senior technology advisor in Research & Innovation in materials (polyurethanes and polyolefins ) . Finally she left the Repsol group to re-join Cefic in 2020 ( following a 3 years secondment from Repsol to Cefic between 2016 and 2019 ) .